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How to execute a command with admin privileges and access to files of the logged in user?
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I have some problems understanding . I am logged in on a terminal as an non-admin/non-root user. This "normal" user is not in the sudoers file (and shouldnt be, in my opinion). Now I try to execute a command that needs admin/root privileges and also access to directories of my normal user – therefo…
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always requires the executing user's password (and requires that you have specific permissions to do this, i.e. are one of the ). requires the password of the target account ( by default, but root account has no password on OS X by default). If you …
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